st: RE: Question on using formatted dates in a filename (or getting it into a local)

st: RE: Question on using formatted dates in a filename (or getting it into a local)

Date

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:51:14 +0100

"DMY" needed in both cases, not "dmy".
Nick
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
Eduard Grebe
I would like to save my logs in a way that sorts them chronologically in
the filesystem. For this they have to have dates formatted as follows:
2010.03.30-logfilename.log
However, I am struggling to create a local containing the current date
in that format. I am managing to display the current date that way, but
not putting it in a local.
This:
di %tdCCYY.NN.DD date(c(current_date),"DMY")
Gives this output:
2010.03.30
But, this
local date = string(date(c(current_date), "dmy"), "%
tdCCYY.NN.DD")
di `date'
Gives an empty output.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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